Release: datasette-ports 0.1 Another example of README-driven development, this time solving a problem that might be unique to me. I often find myself running a bunch of different Datasette instances with different databases and different in-development plugins, spreads across dozens of different terminal windows – enough that I frequently lose them! Now I can run this: datasette install datasette-ports datasette ports And get a list of every running instance that looks something like this: http://127.0.0.1:8333/ – v1.0a26 Databases: […]

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arXiv:2602.02601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding causality between real-world events from social media is essential for situational awareness, yet existing causal discovery methods often overlook the interplay between semantic, spatial, and temporal contexts. We propose CaST: Causal Discovery via Spatio-Temporal Graphs, a unified framework for causal discovery in disaster domain that integrates semantic similarity and spatio-temporal proximity using Large Language Models (LLMs) pretrained on disaster datasets. CaST constructs an event graph for each window of tweets. Each event […]

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arXiv:2509.16337v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-centre studies increasingly rely on distributed inference, where sites share only centre-level summaries. Homogeneity of parameters across centres is often violated, motivating methods that both emph{test} for equality and emph{learn} centre groupings before estimation. We develop multivariate Cochran-type tests that operate on summary statistics and embed them in a sequential, test-driven emph{Clusters-of-Centres (CoC)} algorithm that merges centres (or blocks) only when equality is not rejected. We derive the asymptotic $chi^2$-mixture distributions of the […]

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arXiv:2601.22179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Within the domain of data mining, one critical objective is the discovery of sequential rules with high utility. The goal is to discover sequential rules that exhibit both high utility and strong confidence, which are valuable in real-world applications. However, existing high-utility sequential rule mining algorithms suffer from redundant utility computations, as different rules may consist of the same sequence of items. When these items can form multiple distinct rules, additional utility calculations […]

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It’s also reasonable for people who entered technology in the last couple of decades because it was good job, or because they enjoyed coding to look at this moment with a real feeling of loss. That feeling of loss though can be hard to understand emotionally for people my age who entered tech because we were addicted to feeling of agency it gave us. The web was objectively awful as a technology, and genuinely amazing, and nobody got […]

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arXiv:2602.03878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a mainstream representation for real-time 3D scene synthesis, enabling applications in virtual and augmented reality, robotics, and 3D content creation. Its rising commercial value and explicit parametric structure raise emerging intellectual property (IP) protection concerns, prompting a surge of research on 3DGS IP protection. However, current progress remains fragmented, lacking a unified view of the underlying mechanisms, protection paradigms, and robustness challenges. To address this gap, we […]

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I used to think that driving big impact came from shipping really big projects.  I was wrong. The big projects are certainly what everyone talks about. These are what get added to your resume and mentioned in company all hands decks. If you look at the following projects, you’ll probably reach the same conclusion. Big project – takes 3 months to build and produces 5 “points” of value Small project – takes 1 month to build and produces 1 […]

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I assumed the flicker was SAM3 being temperamental. I watched masks snap on and off across consecutive frames, and my first instinct was to reach for the usual bag of excuses: “it’s a hard scene,” “video is noisy,” “the model needs more context.” What actually broke was simpler and more embarrassing: I was letting the model’s outputs live in the wrong coordinate system, and then I tried to stabilize a tracker on top of that. Once I fixed […]

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After writing the previous post, I poked around in the bash shell documentation and found a handy feature I’d never seen before, the shortcut ~-. I frequently use the command cd – to return to the previous working directory, but didn’t know about ~- as a shotrcut for the shell variable $OLDPWD which contains the name of the previous working directory. Here’s how I will be using this feature now that I know about it. Fairly often I […]

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